How Doug Tomlinson started their logo design journey

Summary

Company name

What inspires you and how do you envision the design for your business?

I'd like a relatively simple logo but something I can be proud of in terms of "branding". I'm fairly new to the self-employed game but a friend led me to this site for help.

My business does IT consulting, installations, repairs, training, etc. Basically a small-time-jack-of-all-trades IT guy with a strong primary focus on Mac / Apple.

I hope to incorporate the name into the logo but I'd like something that stands nicely alone as well (that could be cool for mugs or hats or something)

You can see my original "store bought" logo on my website at: http://www.macitsolutions.com although please don't use that as a reference of what I like :-)

I do like the blue and orange but that's not a priority.

I'm thinking that something "mac-like" such as a widget, iphone button-ish kinda design could be cool if it represented me & my business.

Wants

- Item 1...Not 100% sure but something that somehow represents what the business does.- Item 2...Want to be able to incorporate design into new business cards, website, print, etc (guessing vector image??).